Update notes for 2019-04-10

content/posts/2019-04.md

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 - Ironically I do still see some 2 to 10% of CPU steal in `iostat 1 10`
+- Leroy from CIAT contacted me to say he knows the team who is making all those requests to CGSpace
+  - I told them how to use the REST API to get the CIAT Datasets collection and enumerate its items
+- In other news, Linode staff identified a noisy neighbor sharing our host and migrated it elsewhere last night
+
+## 2019-04-10
+
+- Abenet pointed out a possibility of validating funders against the [CrossRef API](https://support.crossref.org/hc/en-us/articles/215788143-Funder-data-via-the-API)
+- Note that if you use HTTPS and specify a contact address in the API request you have less likelihood of being blocked
+
+```
+$ http 'https://api.crossref.org/funders?query=mercator&mailto=me@cgiar.org'
+```
+
+- Otherwise, they provide the funder data in [CSV and RDF format](https://www.crossref.org/services/funder-registry/)
+- I did a quick test with the recent IITA records against reconcile-csv in OpenRefine and it matched a few, but the ones that didn't match will need a human to go and do some manual checking and informed decision making...
 
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